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The gangster stepbrother of TV presenter and singer Jamelia has been convicted of murder after shooting dead a man during a mass brawl.
Tafarwa Beckford's true identity had been hidden from jurors during his trial due to press coverage of his links to two previous killings.
The "notorious" gang member, 36, was convicted by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court of the 2015 shooting of Derek Junior Myers.
He was allowed to drop his first name and instead use his middle name of Theodore throughout the trial after a legal application for the use of a pseudonym.
Jurors were not told that Beckford - known by the street names "Dreads" and "Charmer" - was acquitted of murder in both 2000 and 2005 after gang-related killings, including an infamous New Year's Day shooting in Aston, Birmingham.